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The Future (and Past) is Human (and Machine)

The Future (and Past) is Human (and Machine)

Alan Lightman and Martin Rees Explore How Science and Technology Have Shaped Our World—And What Comes Next

By Alan Lightman | September 12, 2025

Philosopher of Change: How Henri Bergson’s Radical View of Reality Came to Be

Philosopher of Change: How Henri Bergson’s Radical View of Reality Came to Be

Emily Herring on Bergson’s Formative Upbringing in an Unstable France

By Emily Herring | October 29, 2024

Evolutionary Links: What Great Apes Tell Us About Being Human

Evolutionary Links: What Great Apes Tell Us About Being Human

The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution">From Alison Bashford's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution

By Alison Bashford | September 28, 2023

“But Where’s Its Anus?” On How We Imagine Alien Lifeforms

“But Where’s Its Anus?” On How We Imagine Alien Lifeforms

Jaime Green Considers Our Anthropomorphic Biases

By Jaime Green | April 18, 2023

What Can Extinct Hominins Teach Us About Being Human?

What Can Extinct Hominins Teach Us About Being Human?

Book Dreams Podcast">This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | July 14, 2022

Put Down That Flyswatter: Why We Need Flies to Exist

Put Down That Flyswatter: Why We Need Flies to Exist

Oliver Milman on Our Great Debt to Insects

By Oliver Milman | March 14, 2022

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So, Do Our Dogs Love Us?

By Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry | January 14, 2022

How Our Social Emotions Laid the Foundation for Functioning Societies

By Leonard Mlodinow | January 12, 2022

We Owe Our Entire Existence to a Bunch of Long-Necked Mouth-Breathers

By Elsa Panciroli | September 27, 2021

On the Evolutionary Uses of Storytelling

On the Evolutionary Uses of Storytelling

How Counterfactual Realities Make Us Better Thinkers

By Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Scönberger, and Francis de Véricourt | May 24, 2021

Who Were the First Humans to Start Cooking Meat? And Why?

Who Were the First Humans to Start Cooking Meat? And Why?

Alex Bezzerides Digs Into Mankind's Culinary History

By Alex Bezzerides | May 21, 2021

On Spite: The Pros and Cons of Being Deeply... Petty

On Spite: The Pros and Cons of Being Deeply... Petty

Small Human Vengeances">Simon McCarthy-Jones Offers a Brief History of
Small Human Vengeances

By Simon McCarthy-Jones | April 14, 2021

Where Do Posthumanist Fantasies of Tech-Enabled Life Fit Into Evolution?

Where Do Posthumanist Fantasies of Tech-Enabled Life Fit Into Evolution?

Melanie Challenger on the Endless Desire to Be Done With Bodies

By Melanie Challenger | March 24, 2021

How the Trillion-Dollar Processed Food Industry Manipulates Our Instinctual Desires

How the Trillion-Dollar Processed Food Industry Manipulates Our Instinctual Desires

Michael Moss Connects Our Prehistoric Ancestors to Our Love of Aldi

By Michael Moss | March 5, 2021

What If the Stories We Tell in Order to Live Happen to Be Conspiracy Theories?

What If the Stories We Tell in Order to Live Happen to Be Conspiracy Theories?

William J. Bernstein on the Evolutionary Origins of Collective Delusion

By William J. Bernstein | January 15, 2021

The Quest for the Origins of the Human Species

The Quest for the Origins of the Human Species

Keen On">Kermit Pattison in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 27, 2020

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